25 comments:

A wonderful illustration to a a wonderful little poem. love the interior and the dramatic lighting. And the ghost-like shadow of the letters is really cool! Facing my inner truths... I´ll be thinking about that one today.

Hey Andrew! Wow! The lighting and mood is so perfect. I've been there... well sometimes I chickened out and didn't go down the stairs. Love your work. Nash's poem is so cool too. One of my faves for the week!

I love this Andrew, very creepy! I can hear the echo of footsteps in this room, with the skeleton it puts me in mind of an old medical university library after the staff has gone home - a child early entry prodigy became lost in his studies and got left behind. That probably isn't what you'd intented but just what came to mind - either way, awesome stuff!

one of your best, Andrew — not just the evocative Nash quote, but the dramatic moment you played out in your illustration — awesome. The shaft of light through the window has power, and little details like the skeleton really add to the creepiness. Great job!

...... well thanks very much for all the comments. I appreciate it all very much! This poem my father in law, a very well read gentleman, used to recite. The poem is very eerie and strange and seems to capture something of our animal psyche, harking back to our fear of the unknown, the fear of what we cannot see ... just like when we were all living in caves, but now we live in caves with stairs ...

My dad gave me a book of Ogden Nash's poems when I was in high school, but I don't remember this one. It's very light, like Shel Silverstein's poems, but the picture is most definitely NOT--very creepy, dark and atmospheric. I really really like it!